Costs with a Romanian employee are 50% lower than those with an employee from Western Europe and the average advantage with the human capital is by 30% higher in Romania than in the West, at the same level with the US, a PricewaterhouseCoopers study reveals.

The advantages with the human capital increased by 19%, in Romania, in the last two years, the study reads. The indicator analyzes the advantage of the human capital measured as the profit generated by each employee for each monetary unit paid by the employer as salary.

Romania is ranked at the same level with that in the US and 30% higher than other Western European countries. The result is given by the low salaries in Romania and not by an increased productivity level, Peter de Ruiter, leader of the Fiscal and Judicial Consultancy at PwC Romania explained. In Central and Eastern Europe, the advantages with the human capital increased by 28.6% in 2009 as companies decreased their personnel and the average unemployment in the region amounted to 10.3%.